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thoreau-walden_009-1854	thoreau	thoreau-walden_009-1854	1854		.txt	text/plain	2046	60	67	In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house.	cache/thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt	txt/thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt